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And warm with highs in the upper 50s. The weekend is looking cooler with highs in the 40s and plenty of showers, especially on sunday. Next week is going to start off mild with highs in the 40s, but by the end of the week a more winter like feel should return as lows fall into the 30s. Snow looks pretty limited through the forecast but if we are going to see any next tuesday is going to be our best chance. Elias lets get into the top five this lets get into the top five this morning. Elias four metro Fire Departments are considering a move to improve response times across the area. Waukee, Wes...

Morning. Four metro Fire Departments are considering a merger plan. Elias lam looking at the map, you can see the boundaries shared by waukee, clive, urbandale, and west des moines. And now the departments are looking at ways to step up response times. Its an idea thats been floated around for a couple of years now, but has gained traction after this summer when all four started using westcom dispatch. Any department can go to a working fire, but Department Leaders are looking to make that possible for any fire. The plan could be a shortterm fix, because more stations are also part of the equa...

The upper 50s. The weekend is looking cooler with highs in the 40s and plenty of showers, especially on sunday. Next week is going to start off mild with highs in the 40s, but by the end of the week a more winter like feel should return as lows fall into the 30s. Snow looks pretty limited through the forecast but if we are going to see any next tuesday is going to be our best chance. Elias top five this morning. Elias four metro Fire Departments are considering a move to improve response times across the area. Waukee, West Des Moines, clive, and urbandale have been on the same dispatch Network...

Lundquist and Safety Community help agencies go through that. There is a Police Accreditation coalition that brings tremendous resources. Some organizations do not have the capacity to support accreditation itself. Those help to help shepherd organizations. Should we require departments to develop a plan to reach accreditation . It is a pretty good the sort of Gold Standard of policing, that they aspire to. But should we rather than just encourage it, should we consider some system where we require departments at least to articulate a plan to get this way . I think a requirement is important, ...

Have the recent events and the press response to those events had any kind of impact on your officers or made them more likely to employ strategies and tactics that might actually compromise their safety or the safety of the community . Sheriff clarke mr. Chair, congressman, without a doubt its part of the Tipping Point that i talked about. You know, we need balance obviously and obviously when we find balance maintaining is going to be more difficult. An officer delaying that thing thats telling him or her to do a certain thing that doesnt happen and may cost them their lives but let me say t...